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A Columbia University student was found dead in her dorm room Saturday, and her boyfriend, considered a suspect in her death, died hours later after throwing himself in front of a subway train, police said. Kathleen Roskot, 19, of Long Island, was found dead with a stab wound to the neck, police said. Authorities said a kitchen knife believed to be the weapon had been left in a bathroom. Her wallet was found in the possession of a man who died after jumping in front of a subway train, said New York Police Assistant Chief William Taylor.

A 19-year-old student was found slain Saturday at the nation's only college for the deaf, Gallaudet University. It was the second killing in the same dormitory in five months, police said. Gallaudet officials said the body of Benjamin Varner, of San Antonio, was found by resident advisers on the fourth floor of Cogswell Hall after a fire alarm was pulled at 4:15 a.m. Saturday. Police had few details, but said they believed there was no connection between the two killings. University Provost Jane Fernandes said measures were being taken to ensure the safety of the 2,000 students.

A former Elmhurst Collegestudent was found guilty of a hate crime today for carving racial epithets into the window sill of a fellow student's dorm room last December. Myles G. Burton, 21, faces up to five years in prison for carving the sayings into the sill outside the room of a black student at Stanger Hall, according to police and court records. Burton, a former member of the college's Blue Jays basketball team, was with two other team members on Dec. 8, when he carved the phrases about 11:25 p.m., according to prosecutors.

Excessive alcohol consumption may have caused the death of a 22-year-old Joliet man found dead this morning in a Lewis University dorm room, police said. Romeoville police received at a call about 10:30 a.m. about an unconscious man in the Fitzpatrick Hall dorm, according to police. Police arrived and determined that Elvis Dominguez-Mejia was deceased, according to Assistant Police Chief Steve Lucchesi. The preliminary investigation indicates the man's death may have been caused by excessive alcohol consumption, Lucchesi said.

A U.S. magistrate in Phoenix Wednesday ordered Donald J. Weber sent to Illinois for a hearing on charges that he tried to extort money from the family of murder victim Lynda Singshinsuk, Weber's former girlfriend. Weber, 30, of Robinson, Ill., was arrested Saturday in a remote section of national forest in northern Arizona after a Texas private detective said he led him to the place where Singshinsuk was buried. The extortion charges allege that Weber tried to extort $50,000 from the young woman's family to reveal the location of her body.

A man was acquitted of murder, rape and arson Monday in the slaying of a Western Kentucky University freshman who was attacked and set on fire in her dorm room. Lucas Goodrum, 23, could have gotten the death penalty if convicted of killing Katie Autry, 18, who died of her burns in 2003. The prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of Goodrum's former co-defendant, Stephen Soules. The two were at the same fraternity party as Autry the night of the attack, and prosecutors said they followed her back to her room.

(Reuters) - A Georgetown University student who made the deadly chemical ricin in his dorm room was arrested in Washington, D.C. on Friday for illegal possession of a biological toxin, an FBI spokeswoman said. The student, Daniel Harry Milzman, made the white powder with materials he bought at local stores, including The Home Depot and American Plant Company, according to an affidavit filed in court on Thursday. He found the recipe for making it by doing a search on his iPhone, investigators said.

A Loyola University freshman was charged with raping two female students in their dormitory rooms on consecutive nights this month, Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday. Both victims knew Colin Kennedy and let him sleep in their rooms after he told them he could not get into his own dorm room, prosecutors said. The second victim immediately reported the assault to two female friends, one of whom was the victim from the previous night, prosecutors alleged. Judge Donald Panarese Jr. set bond at $300,000 for Kennedy on two counts of criminal sexual assault.

Two unidentified Ohio State football players are being investigated for rape by the school's police department, according to a 10tv.com report. The station withheld their names since they haven't been formally charged. The alleged victim is an 18-year-old student. She told investigators that the rape occurred after the Buckeyes' Oct. 20 win over Purdue. While "fooling around" with one player in a dorm room, she claimed that another player entered and said, "Let me get in on this.

Students at universities and colleges in Iowa who are younger than 21 may be able to drink legally in their dormitory rooms due to a loophole in the law which could extend parental consent to the room, according to the state attorney general's office. The extension, part of the law the state legislature passed last year to raise the drinking age to 21, allows 19- and 20-year-olds to drink in the privacy of their own homes with parental consent, said Iowa Assistant Atty. Gen. Lynn Walding.